Corey Amthor Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Kansas City, Missouri Area

•P&L responsibility trading natural gas futures with profitable results 6 out of 7 years in a difficult changing market•Responsible for pricing and execution of customer hedging deals for ethanol and grain facilities

•Involved in all aspects of the business including trading, marketing, fund raising, legal, human resources and business operations.•Member of a 2 person team that marketed a hedge fund on Wall Street that resulted in raising $250 million trading capital

•Head of Calpine’s West Desk. This desk had commodity gross margin responsibility for Calpine’s western energy system that included 4000 MW merchant and QF electric generation, 100,000 mmbtu/day natural gas production, natural gas storage and transportation.•Managed a staff of 50 that included traders, analysts and mid office personnel.•Successfully managed Calpine’s merchant portfolio through the power market run-up and subsequent collapse of 2001-02 and the volatile natural gas markets of 2002, during which time Calpine’s realized spark spread was two to four times the spot market. •Worked closely with the deal structuring and origination team on electricity supply contracts to utilities, municipals and industrial companies.

Houston, Texas Area

•Co-founded this highly successful proprietary trading business at Statoil that became one of the largest players in the West power markets. •Profitable 9 out of 10 quarters making $13 million in 2 ½ years starting with $600,000 in risk capital.

Houston, Texas Area

•Started up the West Power Desk for DuPont Power and established the energy trading and risk management operations.

Greater Omaha Area

•Responsible for price risk management of ConAgra’s $150 MM electricity budget that encompassed over 300 hundred facilities. •Primary responsibilities included identifying with plant managers ways to economically optimize energy usage at the plants; negotiation with utilities for the most economical energy prices; and clarifying plants energy price risks in relation to long-term contractual agreements.•Specialized in locational arbitrage of the physical commodity for ConAgra's Feed Ingredient Merchandizing group.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Agricultural Economics